Have to say I'm a big fan of the tunic. That way I can wear tight yoga pants and no one has to look at my bum. Used to wear jeans on Fridays and all weekend, but not anymore. This way I can just gain weight and not know and not care!Hubby might have a different point of view.I always thought the women in Hawaii had the right idea with the moo moo's.

BigBrother BigSister came through again this morning meaning last night we were putting stuff into bags for them. Bob had about one full bag of clothes but I felt that was too little, given how cluttered the house was. I was sure we could do better. So we went through all our hats / gloves / coats / etc. and found two more bags of stuff that we just didn't wear. It was nice stuff, like a vest I'd bought on Nantucket, but I just never wear it. So it made more sense to go to a home where it would be used.

I didn't go through my tshirts because I've gone through them so many times in the past that I'm down to my "favorites". But with that being said, I have 23 of them. I work from home so in the summer I only wear tshirts, but I do laundry once a week or so. Shouldn't I only need 7 then, with maybe a few extra?

I have:

2 black - useful for layering under things1 white2 that say "kayak" in nautical flags - my friend Debi made these for me and I *love* them, I love kayaking in them. And in the summer we try to kayak daily.2 Academy of Knightly Arts shirts, my sword school. Necessary school uniform.1 Fraggle Rock, I love this, it makes me feel dancy1 blue tie dye, I love this.1 red tie dye, ditto. I see a trend.1 'love bermuda' - pretty and summery1 Nantucket love-to-bike-Nantucket, which I do.1 Nantucket 'pass for access on remote beaches' which I also love1 Japanese love kanji1 Japanese peace kanji1 Japanese imagination kanji1 Japanese cutting-through-chaos moon image1 mountain biking "event official" shirt when I volunteered at an event1 battery-powered heart that lights up and beats to music, very cool for gigs1 battery-powered black equalizer shirt that does the same thing.1 plain black shirt for customizing at some point for the band1 red-on-black sci-fi shirt from when I ran the SciFi society at WPI in 19861 "yes we are sisters" shirt that I made for me and my sister when we went to Cancun, since everyone always asked us that

So I adore all these shirts and rotate through them regularly. I.e. each month in warmer months I will wear each one at least once a month. Except the sisters and sci-fi ones, those are for special occasions. Still, I can't imagine wanting to give any away.

Maybe that means I should accept that this is my standard wardrobe and be content with it. Maybe it also means I should look more closely at the other non-tshirts which I rarely wear and start donating some of those. In the summer I pretty much only wear tshirts. In the winter I pretty much only wear sweatshirts. So the other "pretty shirts" I own are just wasted in the closet. Someone else might be wearing those regularly.

When I want to dress up, I always wear one of my long dresses. I would never wear sweats and a pretty shirt, for example. I'm not fond of jeans. So there's no real "bottom" I would wear with those pretty shirts. If I was going to wear a skirt, I'd just go for the dress as it's easier.

Right, Jilly, I always wear those dresses if I'm "dressing up". I rarely even think of wearing anything else. So the other "dress shirts" I have, while pretty, are just going to sit there for years and years. They might as well go to people who need them for interviews or formal occasions.